i think the town hall makes that a challenge for both romney and obama there. >> jake tapper, our senior white house correspondent, soon to be chief white house corresndent, who knees where he'll go from there? jake, thank you very much. he has a big show today. his guests include ohio senator rob portman. bo biden, son of joe biden. and our own martha raddatz, the moderator of the veep debate. also abc news will have live coverage of the next presidential debate on tuesday, starting at 9:00 eastern with diane sawyer and george stephanopoulos hosting. >>> now to the big weather news. hailstorms and at least one tornado. five states in the midwest took a beating last night. this large and nasty storm system is moving east with more states bracing for wild weather today. ginger zee, right before she plans her jump from the outer reaches of outer space is going give us the forecast first. >> we have to get right into it. this is what happened yesterday. october is no stranger to severe weather. october in the u.s. we had that one likely, but three reported, between college station, texas, a